Synopsis
This is a novel about love, loyalty and betrayal. Past experience leads Tessa Brierley to suspect that her husband Nick is, once again, having an affair. Her first instinct, as always, is to confide in her best friend Maddy. But a chance remark over mid-morning coffee reveals that Maddy is the latest 'other woman'. Tessa does not want to lose either husband or friend. Set in the English village of Wychwood and the nearby university town the story plays out against a background of old rivalries, tensions between locals and newcomers and just a touch of lingering feudal attitudes.
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About the Author
Kathleen Rowntree was born in Northumberland, brought up in Lincolnshire, studied music and English at Hull University and is now living with her husband in Oxfordshire. She taught for some years before she began to write. When asked what her novels are about she usually replies with one word: 'relationships'. Her explorations of human foibles and tangles lead reviewers to use words like sharp, shrewd, witty, satirical, clever and hard-biting - as well as sympathetic, funny, warm, suspenseful and (fortunately) entertaining. She has many other interests besides reading and writing fiction, especially art, poetry and hill-walking. Among the UK writers she herself gets most from are Elizabeth Taylor, Julian Barnes and William Trevor while Anne Tyler and Alison Lurie are two of her US favourites.
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